Year 12 Ms Georgiou
Post two film openings on your group blog
Evaluate what you like about them. Use key media terminology
the narrative- the story
the character types (think back to theory) casting/ stereotypes
the mise en scene (costume /setting /lighting)
the sound (music/ dialogue)
the titles- style and the way they enter the screen
the editing

Homework for Ms Warrington's year 12 students

Ms W's students only!
Keep a one-week diary of your media use, in detail. Each day, comment on how your own experiences of media consumption illustrate (show) wider patterns and trends of audience behaviour. (Starting Wednesday 25th January, finishing Tuesday 1st February)
What this means is: record any media you consume and what technologies were involved, then see if you can link that experience to the concepts we've been learning about. Here's an example: "Today a friend texted me asking for the name of a song I'd played to her at a party. I used my phone to email her a link to a YouTube video of a version of the song that I like. I listened to it on my laptop when I got home. I often discover new songs I like when listening to an online radio station called LastFM where I can use the name of a band I like as a tag and it creates a radio station around my own tastes. This media experience shows how much more power consumers have these days than they used to; the internet has made music global and YouTube and LastFM are both examples of "prosumer" technologies. The person who posted the video of the song on YouTube was an ordinary consumer at a concert, taking video probably on a phone or small digital camera. My LastFM station is "my own" - created around my personal tastes by the LastFM website. This also relates to how the convergence of media affects marketing these days: LastFM is free for consumers - it is a marketing device for the music industry because it gets new consumers interested in bands they haven't heard of but might like. If you like a song you hear on LastFM there is a link to iTunes where you can buy it."

Nice Opening Credits

http://www.spike.com/video/napoleon-opening/2974420

I am making a playlist of interesting and EASY credits on JOHNCASSMEDIA channel on youtube. Check them out - see if there's something good for your genre.

FOR MS WARRINGTON'S STUDENTS ONLY: homework questions

Ms Warrington's year 12 should post the answers to the following questions, worked on in the lesson, on their individual blogs.

1. The BBC is supposed to be impartial. Has it ever been accused of being biased (the opposite of impartial)? When and why? (Use the internet to research; check your sources carefully - is the website you are using BIASED itself?

2. Why do you think it is important for the BBC to be impartial? (Think about the way it is funded)

3. Do you think it is POSSIBLE for a media institution to be impartial? Why/why not?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trying to be impartial, for a media institution?

5. What do you think could be the advantages and disadvantages for CONSUMERS of public service broadcasting (like the BBC) compared to consumers of commercial radio stations?

The BBC Radio Quiz

***MS WARRINGTON'S AND MS GEORGIOU'S CLASS ONLY***

Hi year 12 students,

This work is to be done by end of Thursday, 16th December:

Please find out about the history of the BBC as a media institution & how it has made use of technological change to reach its audiences. Answer the questions below in as much detail as you can, either on your blogs or in your exercise books, using this website (and any other sources you wish to find):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/innovation/index.shtml

1. Who invented radio and when?

2. When was the BBC formed?

3. What was the vision of the first general manager for the BBC's purpose - and what was his name?

4. What does it mean that the BBC is 'independent' or 'impartial' and why is this important?

5. In what decade was TV invented?

6. How did the BBC change during World War II?

7. What new radio stations started up on the BBC in the 1960s?

8. Why did the BBC quarrel with the government in the 1980s?

9. What major technological development saw the BBC change the way they broadcast radio in the 1990s?

10. How have the ways the BBC reaches it audiences developed since 2000? Give as many facts as you can.

12. How the arrival of digital broadcasting affect BBC radio (name some of the new stations that were created)?

If you missed the lesson, or you didn't fully understand it on first viewing, you should watch the technological convergence video again now.

Thanks, Ms Warrington

ALSO for Ms Warrington's class: ONLY 3 STUDENTS have attempted to put their radio station research work up on their blogs. Not only have I totally lost my voice, I'm now disappointed too :-( Please sort this out before I next see you. You know who you are. Your task was to write a detailed post on your blog about a station you listen to, covering all three sides of the media triangle: target audience - who listens to it, where &and why; institution/producer - who makes it and how they broadcast it incl. use of convergence; product - what it's like (website design, typical programmes, kinds of music/djs)** The star prize goes to Asad for the best research post so far.

Cover Year 13 Ms Georgiou Friday 10th Dec

Sorry I’m not in guys :(
Can you please make sure you use this time productively as the deadlines are drawing near!
As you had 5 hours on Wednesday and now an hour today, I am expecting all ancillary tasks to be in by Monday. You should spend today’s lesson and after school if necessary in ILC completing these. Everyone must have a print task they can out their name to, so if your in a group of four I’m expecting two digi packs and two mag ad rough drafts- one each etc. In addition to this you should then create collective final pieces- which you have all had an input into. This is the best way to make sure you show a process in the creation of these print tasks- the journey and also will show how you collated your ideas as a group.
So by Monday
1. Research into real products from your chosen genre
2. Simple sketches of your designs/ examples of your ideas on paper
3. Rough designs which you did on Wednesday, playing around with images and photshop
3. Final print pieces which carry the style of your music video and link to each other.
(As always, make sure all designs and ideas have been influenced by your research. So you can say- this is what I have seen and therefore this is what we did!)